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[quick fractal]

Good to know it's at least possible lol, thank you

[raw robin]

Hi all, looking for some code structure suggestions:

A player can pick up an item, and item ranges from [Ones you can throw, Ones you can shoot (i.e. a gun), Ones you can slice (i.e. a sword)...]

I have one ItemBehaviour script with all the interface that holds IThrowable IShootable...

Now the ItemBehaviour script will get length if I squeeze all the functions into one script I think, what's a better way of structuring it?

thanks

public class ItemBehaviour : MonoBehaviour {
    private ThrowableBehaviour throwableBehaviour;
    private ShootableBehaviour shootableBehaviour;
    private SliceableBehaviour sliceableBehaviour;

    void Start() {
        throwableBehaviour = GetComponent<ThrowableBehaviour>();
        shootableBehaviour = GetComponent<ShootableBehaviour>();
        sliceableBehaviour = GetComponent<SliceableBehaviour>();
    }

    public void PerformThrow() {
        throwableBehaviour?.Throw();
    }

    public void PerformShoot() {
        shootableBehaviour?.Shoot();
    }

    public void PerformSlice() {
        sliceableBehaviour?.Slice();
    }

Maybe something like this? So the logic for the action sits within the Behaviour script?

Looking at a structure like this, I almost don't need to involve any interface?

[languid spire]

you do realize that the ? operator does not work with monobehaviours

[wintry quarry]

A mesh is not a GameObject or a component, it's an asset

Dyou assign it at runtime

And every time the mesh changes you would need to reassign it to the collider

[raw robin]

sorry I didn't know that. Thought it would check if the variable is null or not

[languid spire]

works for POCO's, not for Monos

[raw robin]

gotcha thanks!

[short hazel]

Involving interfaces would shorten up this code, since GetComponent allows interface types.

private IPerformable performable;
//...
performable = GetComponent<IPerformable>();
//...
performable.PerformAction();

[languid spire]

but what do you do when you have multiples?

[short hazel]

Interfaces allow inheritance, so you can make a interface IShootable : IPerformable if you want to add specific members for the more specific interface

[short hazel]

Multiples?

[languid spire]

multiple types of Performable on the same object, i.e An Axe is both Throwable and Slashable

[short hazel]

That's not in the initial spec, but if that's needed my solution won't work

[languid spire]

not criticizing your solution, it's one I use often myself, just pointing out potential drawbacks

[raw robin]

thanks, this makes sense

[leaden sage]

how do i get rid of this annoying logo

[languid spire]

turn the gizmo off

[leaden sage]

i tried turn it off here but didnt work

do i just turn all 3d icons off?

that seems to work

[languid spire]

rhats on

open the dropdown you can select per gizmo

[leaden sage]

ahh okok, thanks

[sour parrot]

Can someone help with this issue I have, I can't seem to find a solution anywhere on YouTube or just on the internet.
I'm using a prefab called "Enemy" to spawn in a red cube guy with a gun, although, the script to control his movement needs the player's position so he can move over there. Issue is that I can't reference the player in the behaviour component in unity inspector because the player isn't inside the enemy prefab.

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/references/prefabs-referencing-components

[queen adder]

Chat, what's "delta"?

[slender nymph]

in what context

[queen adder]

Here in my book it's in mouse input

[languid spire]

the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet?

[slender nymph]

do you mean the "mouse delta"? because that is the change in the mouse's position per frame

[queen adder]

if (Input.mouseScrollDelta.y > 0) {

[slender nymph]

so it's not even the mouse delta, it's the mouse's scroll delta. which is the change in the scroll wheel that frame

[languid spire]

delta generally means 'change from previously reported value'

[queen adder]

Thanks

[empty gull]

if anyone could help me realise what im doing wrong in this script thats making the gun flip wrong that would be greatly appreciated.
basically i just need the sprite to flip when you get to a certain point in the rotation.
also i know the code is not clean at all dont worry about it just wanna get this working before i clean it up

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

also instead of manually constructing the rotations like that (which is wrong per the link i just sent) why not just use transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0) or just flip the sprite on the sprite renderer?

[empty gull]

the main reason i dont wanna use the flip in the sprite renderer is because this script is on a "Weapon Slot" game object, allowing me to input any weapon as a child of the slot and it will still rotate and flip the sprite in the same way.
if i used the flip in sprite renderer it would only work for the current pistol and not any future weapons right?

[slender nymph]

[empty gull]

using transform.Rotate(0, 180, 0) fixed this, thanks

[wet bobcat]

ok, so I dont think eulerAngles or

[gloomy kelp]

I'm in this problem for days right now
can I maybe update my unity version or download another admob version will this help?

[slender nymph]

1. this does not appear to be a code issue
2. see the console for details
3. #📱┃mobile

[gloomy kelp]

okay sorry

[tender stratus]

Why cant i access a function?

When i press no function i see monoscript

then string smt

[rich adder]

because you dragged it from the Project folder not the Instance

it needs to be on a gameobject

[tender stratus]

Its on a button

[rich adder]

the script

u want function from

[nova shore]

what can i do instead of

public Keycode slot1,slot2,slot3,slot4

switch (key)
{
case(slot1):
slot1.doshit()
    break;

case(slot2):
slot2.doshit()
    break;

case(slot3):
slot3.doshit()
    break;

}

[tender stratus]

yh?

[tender stratus]

I dont understand

[rich adder]

drag inside the slot the script thats on a gameobject , not the project folder..

[rich adder]

use array of keycodes and a loop

[nova shore]

and equate the key
aighty thanks

[tender stratus]

I did that

But it still doesnt come up

[rich adder]

something like this
#💻┃code-beginner message
"stolen" from praetorblue

[nova shore]

ye ye

[rich adder]

is the function public

[polar acorn]

What does come up now that you've switched to an actual object

[tender stratus]

yup

Game object

transform

and

Got it now

It needed a capital letter

Thanks

[rich adder]

what did ?

[tender stratus]

The name of the function

[cosmic dagger]

full sentences? is your !ide setup

[eternal falcon]

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or underlining errors, please configure it.

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[rich adder]

no it doesnt lol

[tender stratus]

It said naming violation or smt

Oh cause it popped up for me now

[rich adder]

maybe because this time you dragged in the actual isntance thats on a gameobject

[tender stratus]

No it didnt work before.

[rich adder]

the spelling has no relevance to if it shows up or not

[tender stratus]

The function comes up but it doesnt Do its job

[rich adder]

show the code

and what do you expect it to do vs whats happening now?

[short hazel]

The naming violation is merely a suggestion, and won't prevent your code from compiling

[tender stratus]

Its a restart game button

Its only purpose is to just reset the scene to its original

[rich adder]

put Debug.Log inside see if the function runs at all

probably isn't (or scene would reset ofc)

[tender stratus]

Its not

[rich adder]

find out why

is the Button hovered, clicked ? do you have Event System etc..

[tender stratus]

I couldnt tell you, Its my first ever game

[rich adder]

well start lol
you're the one at the computer with the project open

I can only give you pointers , I'm not telepath

[tender stratus]

Yup

[rich adder]

first step is to check your hirerchy for an Event System object

if you have one, run the game.
check the event system inspector, it has a bar you can uncollapse at the bottom, it will tell you exactly what you're clicking etc.

[tender stratus]

So Its a problem with the button

Not the code

[rich adder]

yes

possibly other UI covering it

[tender stratus]

That might be it, one second

No i dont think so

[rich adder]

you have to check this
#💻┃code-beginner message

this isn't a guessing game lol you have to debug it

[tender stratus]

System event inspector can be found where?

[rich adder]

do you have an Event System gameobject in your hierarchy

[tender stratus]

yes

[rich adder]

do you know what the inspector is?

[tender stratus]

yes

[rich adder]

so what do you think the answer to

System event inspector can be found where?
is

[tender stratus]

I thought it was a seperate UI

its registering my Mouse clicks

[rich adder]

no Event System tells the UI what ur clicking

or otherway around, either way they work together

[tender stratus]

I think i may have figured it out

It says im On a canvas rather than a button

[polar acorn]

Show a screenshot of your full Unity window, with the hierarchy visible, and with your button selected

[rich adder]

You have two canvases

you're probably clicking the one ontop

[tender stratus]

I fixed it

[tender stratus]

Yea that was it thanks

[tender wharf]

gamers i have a question, i made a method that determinates the players position in a race based on finished laps and checkpoints. It seems to work, but sometimes it like spazzes out.

Checkpoint and lap progress gets tracked well

    public int GetPlayersPosition()
    {
        var playerPosition = 1;

        foreach (var aiPlayer in aiPlayers)
        {
            if (lapProgress[aiPlayer] > lapProgress[humanPlayer])
            {
                playerPosition += 1;
            }
            else if (lapProgress[aiPlayer] == lapProgress[humanPlayer])
            {
                if (checkpointProgress[aiPlayer] > checkpointProgress[humanPlayer])
                {
                    playerPosition += 1;
                }
                else if (checkpointProgress[aiPlayer] == checkpointProgress[humanPlayer])
                {
                    var nextCheckpointId = (checkpointProgress[humanPlayer] + 1) % checkpoints.Length;
                    var nextCheckpoint = checkpoints[nextCheckpointId];

                    var aiDistance = Vector3.SqrMagnitude(aiPlayer.transform.position - nextCheckpoint.transform.position);
                    var playerDistance = Vector3.SqrMagnitude(humanPlayer.transform.position - nextCheckpoint.transform.position);

                    if (aiDistance < playerDistance)
                    {
                        playerPosition += 1;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        return playerPosition;
    }

My only guess is that I should add more checkpoints so it becomes more precise

or maybe there is some flaw in my logic that im not seeing

[slender nymph]

so you're just getting the raw distance from their current position to the next checkpoint. in some places they could be further back along the track but technically closer to the checkpoint, if you look at the bottom left two checkpoints around that curve and the middle two at the bottom that will be most evident there.
What I would do is instead use something like unity's Splines package, create a spline that follows the track then sample the position along that spline, then you'd also just sample the check point positions along the spline and you can get the distance from those positions along the spline

[tender wharf]

thats actually smart

so basically get the position on the spline thats closest to the player, then get the distance from that position to the next checkpoint

[slender nymph]

the distance from that position to the checkpoints position along the spline. the key here is calculating the distance along the spline. if you aren't doing that, then you're still just getting the raw linear distance from one point to the other

[ripe flame]

I have put this code on a trigger that the player will walk through. I want it to give a debug message every time he has collided an even number of times. (entering the room and exiting)
For whatever reason it only gives the debug message when the collisionCounter is 2. Not on 4,6,8 and so on collisions

using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class LagerDoorTrigger : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField]
    private GameObject playerObject;
    private int collisionCounter = 0;

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)
    {
        if (other.gameObject == playerObject)
        {
            collisionCounter++;
            if (collisionCounter % 2 == 0)
            {
                Debug.Log("Outside");
            }
        }
        Debug.Log(collisionCounter);
    }
}

[tired junco]

Hey, i tried to add System.text.json pacakge to my unityproject via editing the csproj file and running dotnet restore in terminal but this didn't work so i tried to revert it but this fucked up my entire visual studio project it says that System.Void System.Object ... is'nt defined even tough it shows these errors in vs my unity project does run

[languid spire]

so delete the .sln and .csproj files

[slender nymph]

do you perhaps have your console set to Collapse? because if so, then identical logs will be "collapsed" and show as one log with a counter at the far end. which would really be the only reason that would appear to not print that Outside log when the collisionCounter is an even number other than 2

[ripe flame]

Hmm how would I check that?

Oh I see now

Yup works, thanks didn't expect it to be that simple

[tired junco]

i deleted them but the issue is still the same

[languid spire]

did you close and open VS and Unity?

[tired junco]

yes

[languid spire]

odd, screenshot the errors and post the .csproj file to a paste site

[tired junco]

i think ill just create a new project and copy the files but thanks anyway

[steady yew]

i made a 2D snowboard game and I'm using left/right arrow keys to rotate the player. I'm using torque to rotate it. The problem is i built the project and when i start the game the player rotates really slow. But it works well in studio

[slender nymph]

show code

[steady yew]

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;

public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour
{
    [SerializeField] float torqueAmount = 1f;
    [SerializeField] float boostSpeed = 25f;
    [SerializeField] float baseSpeed = 17.5f;

    bool canMove = true;

    Rigidbody2D rb2d;
    SurfaceEffector2D surfaceEffector2D;

    // Start is called before the first frame update
    void Start()
    {
        rb2d = GetComponent<Rigidbody2D>();
        surfaceEffector2D = FindObjectOfType<SurfaceEffector2D>();
    }

    // Update is called once per frame
    void Update()
    {
        if (canMove == true)
        {
            RotatePlayer();
            RespondToBoost();
        }
    }

    public void DisableControllers()
    {
        canMove = false;
    }

    void RespondToBoost()
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.UpArrow))
        {
            surfaceEffector2D.speed = boostSpeed;
        }

        else
        
        {
            surfaceEffector2D.speed = baseSpeed;
        }
    }

    void RotatePlayer()
    {
        if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
        {
            rb2d.AddTorque(torqueAmount);
        }

        else if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow))
        {
            rb2d.AddTorque(-torqueAmount);
        }
    }
}

this is my controller script

[plain dagger]

I think you need to put the physics code in FixedUpdate

[slender nymph]

use a bin site for large blocks of !code 👇

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[slender nymph]

and yes, apply physics in FixedUpdate rather than Update

[plain dagger]

ye, this'll cause it to be frame independant so it won't change how fast it's turning based on the framerate

[steady yew]

ok thank you! lemme try

[umbral bough]

Hi, I sent this code yesterday that makes no sense to me, I would really appreciate somebody explaining what's going on.
These 2 should behave exactly the same(from my understanding):

    public static Camera Camera => Instance._camera ?? (Instance._camera = Camera.main);
    public static Camera Camera => Instance._camera == null ? Instance._camera = Camera.main : Instance._camera;

Yet, 1st one results in a ton of null ref errors while the second one works flawlessly.
They are in the same script, same position(literally one above the other) and I even use the same piece of code for my time manager which just works:

    public static TimeManager TimeManager =>
        Instance._timeManager ?? (Instance._timeManager = GO.GetOrAddComponent<TimeManager>());

According to ai and a person on this server(asked the same thing yesterday), it should work the same, yet it doesn't.
Thanks in advance!

[slender nymph]

did you read the error message?

[steady yew]

how do i publish new update to my game?
yesterday i built the project

[slender nymph]

you build it again

[steady yew]

👍

[wintry quarry]

Never use the ? or ?? operators with Unity objects

[umbral bough]

I did, the _camera is not set, how come tho, if it's null, it should assign Camera.main to it in both cases, am I missing something here?

[wintry quarry]

you have been warned

[umbral bough]

good to know, I never ran into issues before but I'll test properly from now on, thanks.

Is there a reason why it works with the TimeManager(just a regular mb script) and not with Camera?
Like does camera have something specific going on in the background?
I am just curious.

[raw token]

I totally spaced that - but Unity overloads the equality operator, so Objects can be == null to represent an uninitialized or destroyed Object even though they're not actually the value null. ?? doesn't use the equality operation, so

public static Camera Camera => Instance._camera ?? (Instance._camera = Camera.main);

always evaluates to Instance._camera even when it's not been assigned

[umbral bough]

Interesting, how come TimeManager works then?
Is Camera inheriting from something other than MonoBehaviour?

[cosmic dagger]

You can look at the Unity docs, but Camera derives from Behaviour, not MonoBehaviour . . .

[steady yew]

it worked bro thanks!

[umbral bough]

I see, I guess that would probably explain it, thanks a lot!

[cosmic dagger]

Though, ultimately, it derives from Object . . .

[sour parrot]

I couldn't for the life of me figure this out but I found a workaround, thank you!!

[languid spire]

lol, ultimately it derives from object, just like everything else

[slender nymph]

what was not clear about the information presented on that page?

[sour parrot]

its not that it wasnt clear i just didnt understand it all that well, when i typed in instance.Initialise(_target); into my code i got an error message

[slender nymph]

ah yes "an error message"
but i'm gonna go ahead and assume you didn't bother creating an Initialise method that takes a parameter on the type you were attempting to initialize?

[sour parrot]

'GameObject' does not contain a definition for 'Initialise' and no accessible extension method 'Initialise' accepting a first argument of type 'GameObject' could be found

[slender nymph]

right so you were actually using the incorrect type

[sour parrot]

as you can probably tell, im new to unity so everything i take in that isnt "write this variable here" goes over my head

[slender nymph]

there is almost never a need to make a variable a GameObject type. use the type of component you actually care about

[slender nymph]

then start with the beginner courses pinned in this channel so you can learn wtf you are doing

[sour parrot]

rawdogging it 😍

[cosmic dagger]

Exactly, haha . . . 😄

[steady yew]

guys when i start my game my sound effects and particle systems starts on their own why?

[cosmic dagger]

Do you have PlayOnAwake checked?

[languid spire]

Play On Awake ?

[steady yew]

lemme check

[slender nymph]

don't expect help if you refuse to bother learning the basics

[sour parrot]

ok man chill, i'd feel like i learn less if i sat at my screen reading for ages and not just going in and learning practically

thank you for helping though

[steady yew]

yes they were!

[slender nymph]

the thing is though, is that you aren't learning practically. you are just blundering along relying on others to tell you what to do

[sour parrot]

🤫 this is the first time i've asked for help with programming in years

maybe you're right though but i wouldnt enjoy reading tutorials the whole time

[tawdry rock]

Help, how can i save and load a gameobject rotation?
this is my save:

rotation[0] = myPlayer.transform.rotation.x;
rotation[1] = myPlayer.transform.rotation.y;
rotation[2] = myPlayer.transform.rotation.z;```
This is how i try to load:
```Vector3 myRotation;
myRotation.x = data.rotation[0];
myRotation.y = data.rotation[1];
myRotation.z = data.rotation[2];
thePlayer.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(myRotation);```

[slender nymph]

transform.rotation is a quaternion, not euler angles
https://unity.huh.how/quaternions/members

but also what are you even using to save this data? it may be possible to just store the quaternion directly

[wintry quarry]

you forgot about the w and then you treated the xyz as if they were euler angles, which they're not.

[tawdry rock]

but if i don't do quaternion i get error

[wintry quarry]

"do quaternion" lol

[tawdry rock]

thePlayer.transform.rotation = myRotation; Cannot implicitly convert type 'UnityEngine.Vector3' to 'UnityEngine.Quaternion'

[slender nymph]

again, transform.rotation is a quaternion

[wintry quarry]

because myRotation is a Vector3

why would you try to put a Vector3 into a Quaternion field

[slender nymph]

that part wasn't even the issue. the issue was the first part where you store the data

[wintry quarry]

well... both are the issue

[tawdry rock]

because im dumb i guess

[wintry quarry]

they're incompatible

you have to be consistent

[slender nymph]

not if they'd store the eulerAngles in their array

[wintry quarry]

sure, or if they restored it as a quaternion (and stored it as one)

they jsut have to pick one

[slender nymph]

well we don't even know if they can store the quaternion because they elected to ignore the question about how they are actually saving the data 🤷‍♂️

or i suppose they could probably make the array larger. but honestly an array for this seems absolutely pointless either way

[wintry quarry]

well presumably if that mechanism can handle a float[3] it can handle a float[4]

but yeah

[ionic zephyr]

In a 2D top-down view game is it better to use a OverlapBox than a Circle?

When attacking

[slender nymph]

use whichever shape makes the most sense for whatever you are doing. there is no "better"

[summer stump]

There is no "better"

It depends on the shape you want

[ionic zephyr]

And how can I make my character, in that same view, face the way I am moving

in terms of the transform

I have a movement vector, how can I make the transfor "look" that way

[slender nymph]

assign either the transform.up or transform.right to the direction of movement (depending on what direction it faces with no rotation applied)

[cosmic dagger]

Whichever direction is the default facing direction, assign that to the movement direction . . .

[eager spindle]

InteractableObject and Interact To Progress both inherit from Monobehaviour, why can I only disable InteractableObject?

[slender nymph]

it doesn't have any methods that would be affected by being disabled so it just doesn't render the checkbox for it (this was changed in unity 6 i believe)

even if it did render the checkbox, there's nothing that would be affected by its enabled state

[cedar mirage]

why is my collider not lined up with my actual circle gameobject

i keep having to resort to using offset

to get it lined up

is there any way to fix this simply?

[slender nymph]

where is the code question

[cedar mirage]

my bad didnt realize i was in the scripting section

which channel would this best be for?

unity talk is fine?

[slender nymph]

christ are you ever going to stop with the constant barrage of messages because you don't know how to finish a thought before sending a message?

[cedar mirage]

ohhhh lol you're that person, funny

[ocean arch]

I have an error:

Assertion failed on expression: 'SUCCEEDED(hr)'

does anyone know what this could mean?

[slender nymph]

"that person" you mean the person who pointed out the literal server rules about spamming and not using full sentences?
go read up on #📖┃code-of-conduct again then look at the pivot point of your sprite to fix your issue

[eager spindle]

Ah I see thanks! As long as I implement start or update itll work right?

Very interesting implementation

[slender nymph]

sure, but like is there any reason you need to disable that specific component?

[raw token]

There's really not enough information there to go off - can you share the full error and stack trace?

[eager spindle]

Quest system: Some components get enabled or disabled depending on which part of the quest the player is in. By default this is off

[ocean arch]

that's all, I have this message (in fact 4 of these exact same messages) when I open older projects or create new ones.

[slender nymph]

you can still set its enabled property in code even if the checkbox isn't there, but that still won't make anything at all happen if there's nothing that will actually be affected by being disabled

[slender nymph]

so what is the point of disabling a component that won't be affected by that in any way?

[eager spindle]

oh wait I was disabling the wrong component 😄

[raw token]

No filename or anything? Even when you select one of the messages?

[ocean arch]

Yep, but this error doesn't affect the game at all... but it still is kinda annoying

[languid spire]

which Unity version?

[ocean arch]

2021.3.38f1

[eager spindle]

My workflow would be made much more convenient if I could operate with two prefabs open at the same time, but even when starting a new Game tab opening a prefab controls all Game tabs
Any way I can work on multiple prefabs at the same time?

[ocean arch]

LTS

[molten dock]

You can have two inspectors open if that helps

[empty gull]

trying to get a weapon pickup system working, and my player simply isn't colliding with the weapon pickup on the floor.
the player has a rigid body, both the player and the weapon pickup have colliders - the weapon pickup collider has 'is trigger' on - and i've checked that the layers they are both on can collide with eachother in the physics matrix
i have also tried using OnTriggerEnter2D instead of OnCollisionEnter2D and neither work for me, currently all i need is for the 'canPickUp' bool to be checked when i move into the weapon pickup collider

[slender nymph]

https://unity.huh.how/physics-messages/2d-physics-messages

[rich adder]

KeyDown is one frame event, and so is oncollisionenter . You would need to be non-human to hit that correctly

[slender nymph]

i would also strongly recommend against using Collison/Trigger messages for interaction systems. use a physics query like an OverlapCircle instead and you can have all of the relevant detection code in Update on a single object so you not only don't miss input (like what is clearly happening here) but also so you don't have a hundred different objects always checking for something that can be checked from one central location

[empty gull]

currently not too worried about getkeydown working, but thanks for this info anyway, using ontriggerenter would be better then

[empty gull]

alright thank you ill have a look into this

[queen adder]

I don't know if i read it right but if you gonna use ontriggerenter both objects needs to have a trigger hitbox (What i know) I was wrong

[slender nymph]

incorrect, at least one must have isTrigger on. but both can have it enabled

[queen adder]

Oh sorry my bad, Also a noobie

[slender nymph]

the page i linked goes over that kind of information

[fickle stump]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[fickle stump]

Hey, I'm currently trying to turn on one light after the other on a path.
For now I can turn them on, but I'm having a mistake somewhere where the lights aren't turning on one after the other, but all at once.

https://gdl.space/amudakasos.cs The script is attached to a functioning trigger object

[slender nymph]

that loop completes in a single frame. you'll want to extract the loop into a coroutine and yield for your desired time each iteration so they enable one at a time

[fickle stump]

Hm I never worked with coroutines

thats gonna be interessting

[raw token]

On a side note, this condition seems a little peculiar as well:

if (Time.time - timeIntervalCandles >= 0)

it checks if the game has been running for timeIntervalCandles seconds

[wintry quarry]

it can also be done in Update with a simple timer variable.

[dusk bloom]

i have question, i dont have idea why playerdatainstance dissapears after i start game> any clue why it dissapears from its field after i start game

[ivory bobcat]

This is the beginner coding channel, for non-coding questions try #💻┃unity-talk

[dusk bloom]

oh sorry then, (so im not beginner anymore? )

[fickle stump]

Oh

Thank you

[slender nymph]

i imagine this is probably related to your code which you would have to show

if it isn't related to the code though, then definitely not appropriate for this channel as this is a code channel

[ivory bobcat]

It was resolved
#💻┃unity-talk message

[errant pilot]

Guys i have a raycast that stop working when i add a collider to the object, how can i fix it?

[summer stump]

The collider blocks what you expect to hit?

Show code

[errant pilot]

ya ik how can i fix it

ill send the code

[summer stump]

Put some debug logs in. Which condition fails? I am guessing the collider.transform is not the player_transform

[errant pilot]

yup

its hitting its own collider

[summer stump]

Ok. Remove that layer from the layermask

[errant pilot]

the objects layer?

[summer stump]

The one you do not want to hit

[errant pilot]

ok ill try it

[modern oxide]

Hi guys! I'm making a VR game and I'm using the XR interaction Toolkit. I was wondering how I could make a grenade? I've tried but I can't get it to work

[raw token]

You should try and narrow that down to a more specific question... there are a lot of different aspects to implementing a grenade

[rocky canyon]

not sure how vr hand controls work.. but u need to pass on velocity to the grenade

(sphere w/ rb)

[modern oxide]

well, I guess getting it to detect when it should go off, like it only going off when the player presses the trigger and after that the next thing that isn't the hands that it collides with it will explode and destroy itself, that's my basic idea but I don't know how to do that. I can try to narrow it down even more

[modern oxide]

Unity's XR toolkit already does that for you

[raw token]

If you mean "go off" as in explode, you could just use a normal OnCollisionEnter() event to detect impact and explode. The hands could be omitted from triggering the collision via layers.

For the actual explosion, you might have the grenade instantiate a prefab encapsulating the relevant effects - particles, audio, and maybe using a physics query to detect rigidbodies nearby and apply an AddExplosionForce()

(one of many possibilities 👀)

[rocky canyon]

ya, shouldnt be interacting with hands once released

[empty gull]

when instantiating a prefab it loses some scripts and gameobjects, i know this is intended but i need to know how to add those back into the prefab upon instantiation in the script, heres the code so far, any help is appreciated ty

[crisp token]

why cant I make an abstract method static / is there something else with similar functionality

[empty gull]

ive looked around on the internet for a while everything im seeing i cant figure out how to implement properly

[crisp token]

wdym it loses scripts

[rocky canyon]

https://unity.huh.how/references

instantiate returns an obj..

[empty gull]

okay so when i add everything to it in the hierarchy then make it a prefab it loses some things, heres a screen shot

[rocky canyon]

use that to then grab components /and or set up other values once instantiated

[raw token]

Statics aren't ever inherited, so they don't make sense as an abstract

[crisp token]

is there a way to say I want all child classes to have some kind of static method

[modest dust]

Imagine you have an abstract static method. Then you use the base abstract class name to call it. Which implementation would be called?

[modest dust]

Have a non-abstract static method call an abstract non-static method

[mint remnant]

you could always create a singleton

[crisp token]

couldnt u just do what it normally does

highest possible reference

[empty gull]

i understand this functionality but am unsure how to implement it to get the components properly

[modest dust]

What reference? Static methods are not bound to any reference. They're called from the class-level, not instance-level

[crisp token]

smart

[raw token]

On a bit of a tangent, I think you can define an interface with static members, but then it might make a mess of inheritance... I'm assuming a parent and child class cannot both implement the same interface, because that would make an inheritance graph rather than a tree/chain? 🤔 (brain fart)

Edit: shower thought. Pay me no heed - I'll play 👀

Edit edit_v2_final_final.doc: ewww

[crisp token]

maybe highestpossible class in hierarchy

well not highest but the same way they do it for casting

[modest dust]

Which one? There can be multiple deriving classes

You call a static method on class-level, not instance-level

MyClassName.StaticMethod

If it's abstract, you can call it from the base class which declares it

From there it makes no sense which implementing class to choose

[crisp token]

oh yeah, nvm then

forgot about that part

[empty gull]

how would i add the player movement script into the "Player Move Script" slot on the prefab, currently trying to use getcomponent but dont really know how i would add it to the prefab

[rocky canyon]

get component just grabs the script using <Type> soo it'd be whatever your player script was.cs

[modern oxide]

Using Unity.XR, how do I find my controllers using roles?

[rocky canyon]

many different ways to do it.

        PrefabScript prefabScript = instantiatedPrefab.GetComponent<PrefabScript>();```

now all its public variables are methods are accessible like prefabScript.ReferenceA = ... ;

or prefabScript.DoFunctionA();

[steep rose]

would cancelling inputs be a good way to limit speed on a rigidbody? (just WASD)

[rocky canyon]

sounds awful, and odd

just limit its actual speed lol

[summer stump]

IGNORING inputs that put the velocity over a value may be fine, and is not uncommon

[steep rose]

yes this is what i meant sorry 😅

[rocky canyon]

ya, weird phrasing lol. ignoring inputs over a limit is just basic clamping

[steep rose]

my code in my main script got all messed up because unity autosaved and i didnt have a backup when it did

[summer stump]

So if moving "left" at the max speed, just don't add speed when pressing A. But if you press D, then decrease that velocity

[steep rose]

so now i have to redo everything

[rocky canyon]

unity autosaves now? 👀

[summer stump]

Uhhh... are you using version control?

[steep rose]

no sadly

[summer stump]

No. Must be an external package

[steep rose]

i would like to

i just dont know how

[summer stump]

Stop everything right now and get it

[rocky canyon]

well do.. !git

!vc ?

[eternal falcon]

Using version control in Unity

Unity Version Control

• Getting started

Git

Get the latest .gitignore file from here. It should be placed at the root of your Unity project directory.

[rocky canyon]

there we go

[summer stump]

It is dead easy. There is no reason not to

[rocky canyon]

use a graphical program.. and watch / read a tutorial or 2

its pretty easy within the backup, change, pull/push, aspect of it all

[steep rose]

version control seems very useful and would have probably saved me a couple times 😅

i will get on it

[rocky canyon]

one of my harddrives just gave-out last month..

it was an awful ordeal. but knowing atleast some of my projects were on VC made it not as bad

ruining a scene is 1 thing.. losing a project or two.. pretty much ties ur hands to using version control, if ur half-sane

[modern oxide]

How do I fix this? I can't find what varible the XR controllers are

so I can't make a varible for it

[empty gull]

this helps thank you, so now i have access to the player movement script inside the script i am instantiating the prefab, but then how do i actually plug the player movement script into the prefab (am i missing something?)

[slender nymph]

well for starters, according to the docs page, this method is obsolete so you wouldn't be using it anyway 🤔

[graceful crystal]

any idea why it's not recognising this as a variable for player?

[modern oxide]

im using 2.4.3, not 3

[slender nymph]

it isn't that it isn't being recognized. it's that when you go to access it, it is not assigned. either something is unassigning it in code, you have more than one of these components in the scene where one isn't assigned, or the object that has been assigned is being destroyed

[slender nymph]

i'm assuming you are referring to the XR Interaction Toolkit which that method is not a part of

[modern oxide]

oh, well im not sure what to use then

[slender nymph]

well what are you actually trying to do with that line then?

[modern oxide]

trying to get access to my controllers so I can check if the trigger is pressed

also if grip is too

[slender nymph]

and have you looked at the documentation to see how you might do that? or have you gone and looked at ancient tutorials that use methods that have been obsolete for years?

[steep rose]

if the playermovement is on the prefab already once you load it, it will be there. make sure all your values are correct on the script

[modern oxide]

I looked at the docs and saw the role feature so I tried using that

[slender nymph]

what doc did you look at

[steep rose]

aye be honest, i am looking at a brackeys youtube video and he's using github is this good to use? or would you recommend something else.

[slender nymph]

github is pretty much the industry standard. use it

[steep rose]

thank you 👍

[modern oxide]

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/xr_input.html

[queen adder]

I miss omnisharp checking my whole project for syntax error when I press F8 :<

[slender nymph]

even if that method weren't obsolete, the example you copied from shows you the declaration and initialization of the gameControllers variable

[queen adder]

what code intelligence server does unity call the one they uses now?

[slender nymph]

but when using the xr interaction toolkit, shouldn't you just be using the input system for input? like that's literally a requirement for that package

[slender nymph]

what are you talking about? omnisharp is still what is used for vs code's intellisense

[queen adder]

really?

[graceful crystal]

how do i figure it out

[teal viper]

This means that your ide is not configured correctly. Check the config guides. !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it.

Select one:

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[slender nymph]

why would you think it isn't?

[empty gull]

the slot for player movement is there but the actual script isnt inside it

[queen adder]

thought it was c# devkit shit

[slender nymph]

well start by looking for other copies of that component. you can use t:CameraController in the hierarchy search bar to find all instances of that type

the C# DevKit just installs relevant c# extensions. omnisharp is part of the C# extension and likely always will be

[queen adder]

it is configured, but it wont find any errors that is not in the files tab

[steep rose]

show me a picture of what you mean

i started a thread so it doesnt get messy here

[modern oxide]

That declaration didn't work tho

[slender nymph]

it doesn't even matter if it did because that method is still obsolete

[modern oxide]

oh its been replaced with Characteristics

[teal viper]

And I think that's the normal behaviour. You don't want intellisense scanning your whole project all the time. Though VS might be doing a better job with that. Anyways, you should be looking at the unity console first and foremost.

[quartz beacon]

hello i'm completely new to unity and c# and i have an audio source component attached to a gameobject and i just want to trigger the sound through code. how can i target the audio source and play the sound?

[rich adder]

https://unity.huh.how/references

[graceful crystal]

it automatically resolved itself once i fiddled with visual studios settings

thank you tho ❤️

[slender nymph]

those are entirely unrelated things

[sage folio]

this might have an issue not relating to the script, but when i build the project the player can't move, they player can fall but there is no movement, although its fine when playing in the editor, this is a first person 3D project
https://gdl.space/kopilikixo.cpp

[rich adder]

fiddling with VS settings would not solve a NRE

you probably got rid of the extra script with unassigned reference

[solemn fractal]

Hi friends.. I am getting an error on line 39 here.. it says: You are trying to create a MonoBehaviour using the 'new' keyword. This is not allowed. MonoBehaviours can only be added using AddComponent(). Alternatively, your script can inherit from ScriptableObject or no base class at all
The other class looks like this as you can see in the SS. why that doesnt work?

[deft grail]

you are doing new AreaOfAttack

AreaOfAttack is a MonoBehaviour

[rich adder]

pretty clear error if you ask me lol

[solemn fractal]

I always did like that. Not sure why I cant do it.

Always used new Classname()M

[deft grail]

because you are doing new, you cant do that on a MonoBheaviour

[rich adder]

you should not new a MB

[deft grail]

so you didnt do that always, because its impossible

[summer stump]

Was that classname a MonoBehaviour?
It is perfectly fine when it is NOT
But yeah, you could NEVER have done new on an MB
When you think about it, it doesn't even make sense to

[deft grail]

it was either empty, or a ScriptableObject or something, like the error suggest you can fix it like that

[rich adder]

couldn't even new a SO

they got confused for sure aint no way lol

[summer stump]

You CAN new a gameobject. I'm assuming it was maybe that?

[deft grail]

no idea tbh, but it says you can in the error 🤷‍♂️

[summer stump]

I mean, an MB is a component. How can a MB exist outside of a gameobject?

[solemn fractal]

Understood. Thank you guys.

[rich adder]

oh true maybe Im mistaken ? its been a while thought we use the method for it 👍

[solemn fractal]

Already fixed here. Thank you all

I have so much difficulty with null reference.. the day that I learn how to master this.. I think I will speed up my games progress 1000%. Just a comment. 😛

[rich adder]

null references will be the least of your problems in the future lol

[tardy needle]

Anyone knows how can I serialize a script inside a component? I would like to inside the inspector be able to chose the 3 public atributes of health. Is it possible to do this?

[slender nymph]

does Health have a reason to inherit from MonoBehaviour? if no, then don't make it a MB. if yes, then the only way you'd be able to do that is to write a custom inspector that will then write to the serialized fields stored on the reference assigned to your PlayerManager

[toxic frigate]

hello all, im not sure how to phrase my question correctly so please clarify if there is confusion: when i exit a scene and load up a main menu scene and then load up the first scene again, nothing works, why is that and how can i fix it

here is the main menu loading line
cs UnityEngine.SceneManagement.SceneManager.LoadScene("mainmenu");

[native hill]

does anyone have a tutorial about row and collums, im trying to make a summoning script that spawns objects behind u in rows

[slender nymph]

are you perhaps exiting from a pause menu? because most of the time issues like this are caused by setting timescale to 0 in the pause menu but then not setting it back to 1 when returning to the main menu so it ends up staying 0 when loading back to the game scene.
if that isn't it, then you need to provide more information

[toxic frigate]

oh jeez you're right

thank you so much

[tardy needle]

Is it better to not inherit from MonoBehaviour? does it consume resources? Also, is it possible to write a custom inspector, how could I do so? I think I will have to do it for other clases

[toxic frigate]

this is like the third time you've helped me lol how do i give you karma

[slender nymph]

it's not "better", it just entirely depends on what your needs for that object are

[solemn fractal]

hahaha Well if I manage to never get this one again I will be already super happy.. I lose a lot of time around it still.. 😛 but I understand what you mean hahaha. !!

[summer stump]

is it possible

Well... they did suggest it
It is a big topic, but there are many guides online

[tardy needle]

I see, for the Health script monobehaviour isnt needed, but my other scripts will

[summer stump]

If you want it to be a direct component, then you need it to be a MonoBehaviour. If it is just data, it does not have to be

[tardy needle]

What do I have to search for the tutorials?

[summer stump]

"Unity custom inspector"

[tardy needle]

Okay thanks

[slender nymph]

there is also documentation about extending the editor pinned in #↕️┃editor-extensions

[hallow sun]

Question about building a .exe
Does it always need the folders? It always makes a BurstDebug, Data, MonoBleedingEdge, and a dll.
Do i need to upload all of these to share my game? Unreal does a similar thing idk if im missing a setting.

[slender nymph]

the only folder you don't need and should always delete is the one that literally has "DoNotShip" in its name. the others are absolutely necessary

[crisp token]

are you guys talking about version control? i really need to look into that

[slender nymph]

no, but you should be using some sort of version control. i personally recommend and use git, but unity's version control package is decent from what i've heard

[crisp token]

Does that back up your entire asset folder or just code

[slender nymph]

you commit what you want to your repository

[crisp token]

So git can store all kinds of files? That’s cool

[solemn fractal]

Hi guys.. I have a situation here. I want the player to attack enemies if he enter this area. If I put on the variable to attack only in 1 unity so float areaOfAttack = 1; It will attack correctly in 1 square unity. But the scale of my circle is 2.1 I want it to be always the circle area. And I do not want to use collision to check this.. any fix for that other than using collision 2d?

[slender nymph]

yes, just keep in mind that for files larger than 100mb you need to use LFS which has a storage cap for the free tier (though tbf UVC also has a storage limit for free tier)

[crisp token]

Is the purpose of git to create a copy essentially in case unity files get corrupted? I’m just not sure what the main concern is

[slender nymph]

no, it's to track changes to your files so you can revert those changes, work with others, and as a bonus hosting the repo on a remote repository serves as a backup for the files

[crisp token]

Ok, thanks I’ll go do that

[verbal dome]

Instead of areaOfAttack why dont you just use the object's scale?

[solemn fractal]

omg, hahaha i didnt think about that. You are a genius.. Thank you !! hahahaha

[solemn fractal]

HI guys when I try to use the Console.Writeline nothing appears on console.. any ideas?

[teal viper]

Why not Debug.Log?

[solemn fractal]

Amazing, that worked. Thank you.

[summer stump]

Anything starting with Console. is not for use in Unity. It is for console apps
It technically can work, just not as smoothly or as easily as the Unity API (like Debug)

[crisp token]

can I pass a bool by reference?

[summer stump]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/keywords/ref

Could just returning a bool work though? it's generally better

[ivory bobcat]

What in particular are you trying to do with it? Maybe you can avoid having to pass the bool and instead pass what owns it.

[crisp token]

i dont even know if this is going to work but im trying to call a coroutine from a different script and have that coroutine pause and resume only when the method in which it was called is run again

[ivory bobcat]

Pass a reference of the object that owns the bool

[crisp token]

as in the script?

[ivory bobcat]

Coroutines won't take ref parameters.

[summer stump]

Script is a word for a file. So no.
Pass the class, which is an object

[slender nymph]

can't pass ref parameters to the coroutine so that will be the best option. or pass a func that returns the state of that bool and use WaitUntil

[crisp token]

i thought you cant do that with monobehavior?

[summer stump]

Do what?

Pass a reference to it? Of course you can

[crisp token]

ah I got you, thanks

like this right?

[ivory bobcat]

public IEnumerator MyCoroutine(MyScript myScript)
{
    while(myScript.myBool)
    {
        //do stuff
        yield return null;
    }
}```

[crisp token]

I cant believe i didnt know you could pass Monobehaviors as objects

a whole world has oppened up to me

[summer stump]

MBs ARE objects, to be clear

[crisp token]

this whole time I had been using GetComponent<>

so I thought you could only do it from other monobehaviors

[summer stump]

UnityEngine.Object > Component > Behaviour > MonoBehaviour

[modern oxide]

How can I get VR controller input using Unity XR? I've been trying to figure it out but I just can't

[summer stump]

May be best to ask in #🥽┃virtual-reality

[modern oxide]

oh yeah thanks

[cosmic dagger]

It's a type (class) just like anything else. Why not?

[crisp token]

I just figured since you couldnt instantiate them traditionally you couldnt do other things

[cosmic dagger]

with programming, never assume . . .

[native hill]

wheree is the site to paste stuff!

[cosmic dagger]

!ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

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[native hill]

i found it, thank you

[summer stump]

Can also be found in #854851968446365696

Wait, ide?

[native hill]

no, i have my ide

[cosmic dagger]

no, i found it first . . . 😛

[summer stump]

It's not about having it, that was for configuring it. But yeah, they meant !.code (split to break the call)

[cosmic dagger]

oh shit, you right. it was !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

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[native hill]

https://paste.ofcode.org/jFRC6ZJkXqdRYpCkBgHVFH in the SummonBarbarian method im trying to make it so the cloned gameobject spawns behind my player in rows but its just spawning on top of me

[native hill]

oh, okay

thank you guys!

[cosmic dagger]

i knew that . . . 🫠

[summer stump]

Do you know how to use the debugger? I would put a breakpoint in and check values at runtime

[eternal needle]

did you debug what those values are? unless you changed them in inspector
0 * anything = 0

transform.position - (CurrentRow * RowDistance * transform.forward) - (CurrentCollum * RowDistance * transform.right)
=> transform.position - 0 vector - 0 vector

[native hill]

whats that?

[native hill]

ill try changing the value to two or something

[eternal needle]

well dont just randomly change stuff

[summer stump]

Something you can google for a guide.

But you can just do Debug.Log for now

[eternal needle]

this should be used for something, did you use AI to make this code?

[native hill]

oh alright, ill do that

[native hill]

yeah i used it for some help

[summer stump]

I recommend against that

[eternal needle]

well you shouldnt, as you have no idea what this code is doing

[native hill]

i figured out what most of it is

[eternal needle]

and yet here we are

[native hill]

yeah 💔

ill try debugging it right now

[mint remnant]

maybe we can get chatgpt to join the discord and when it sees code it wrote it can chime in, hey I wrote that code, let me help you fix it

[native hill]

it didntntntn helppp!!!

my computer is so slow im sobbing

is Debug.Log(SpawnPositon); enough for trying to debug it?

[teal viper]

Or it'd say, "you didn't copy my code correctly"

[native hill]

i tried understanding it before i wrote it

my code is super buggy, i think im just gonna rewrite it without ai thank you guys

[summer stump]

Not the best

But what did the log say?

[eternal needle]

i did also point out one likely problem above. you should debug what the difference is between the transform.position and spawnposition is, since your issue is that they're spawning ontop. Then you debug further with possibly the results of CurrentRow * RowDistance * transform.forward or CurrentCollum * RowDistance * transform.right

[native hill]

i pressed space four times and i got (-5.07, 1.17, -0.54) four times, it stopped spawning at me cause the values i changed in the code didnt change in the inspector for some reason so i just changed it there

[native hill]

alright, thank you ill do that

after CurrentColumn goes back to zero it goes infront of the first clone spawned

i got it to work, thank you guys

[queen adder]

I just wasted like 2 hours because I was trying to hit a box collider (not 2D) with a 2D raycast

fml

no medicine for stupidity

[mint remnant]

Debug.Drawline my raycasts if at all in question

[summer stump]

That would not help in this issue. But yes, that is an extremely useful tool

[oak elk]

hi, does anyone know how to make unity "refresh" my compiler errors after i fixed them in vs code (so that i can start play mode)?

for example i acidentally write nonexistent variable "radius" instead of just putting a number , and it caused a compiler error, but after i fixed it unity hasnt caught on that i fixed it already, and i have to restart the engine every time it happens

[ivory bobcat]

Did you save the script?

[oak elk]

yeah i saved it in vscode

[raw token]

Unity should be watching those files and recompiling/reloading the domain automatically 👀

[ivory bobcat]

Did you change the Unity configuration to not auto compile?

[oak elk]

lemme check wait

oh it works hahaha

it was disabled

thanks lolo

[umbral rock]

im following a tutorial to make subway surfers and i came across a line of code called Math.Lerp, i know what it does, so u give a minimum value and a maximum value and then a starting value to the third and he is gonna randomly choose a number between the min and max right? so i understand that but i dont know what the tutorial is doing, i'll send u a photo of the line of code

the minimum is x but x doesnt have any value in this whole block of code

He just put a variable on top like this, Private float x; is this default on 0?

and he is using the lerp to determine the animation time to dodge i think but i wonder why he is using lerp? because it'll chose a random value between the min and max so wont this effect the animation because its a random number every time?

[eternal needle]

yes this will default to 0

also most of this tutorial code looks horrible

[umbral rock]

Hmmm, but why does he uses lerp? so i know its for the animation but isnt the random number gonna affect the animation or something?

i dont understand why u should use lerp for animating

[eternal needle]

not sure what random number you're talking about

the only part that controls the animation is the .Play call, nothing else affects your animation itself

[umbral rock]

Well, the math.lerp is chosing a random number between the x and the NewXPos right? and what is the Time.deltatime*Speeddodge then? thats the random number right? or?

[languid spire]

why random? where do you get that from?

[eternal needle]

lerp is a linear interpolation between A and B, at value T where t is between 0,1

[umbral rock]

oh its a loop?

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Lerp.html

not at all

[umbral rock]

so value T cant be 2?

But why does this guy uses this?

[eternal needle]

well, the code is shit but they're also not using a value over 1

[languid spire]

basically, because he doesn't know what he is doing

[umbral rock]

Well yeah i understand that but i just wanna know why he does uses it and how it works

[languid spire]

he probably learned his Unity code from Brackeys tutorials which are full of this kind of shit

[eternal needle]

https://unity.huh.how/lerp/wrong-lerp

they are using it incorrectly, and we cannot tell you why

[umbral rock]

it works tho so? i just want to understand what it does in this case? so he choses a min and max value, then he does the time.deltatime* speeddodge?

is this to determine his position in wich lane he is? because subway surfers has 3 lanes i guess?

[languid spire]

ok, think of it like this
x is min, newPos is max and time.deltatime* speeddodge will always produce roughly the same value between 0 and 1
So...
the lerp return the factor of t between min and max so a value between x and newPos. but...
because it is updating x with this value, the value returned will gradually move towards newPos.

so Lerp is normally
current = min,max,t where t changes
what he is doing is
current = current, max, t where current is changing and t is static

[umbral rock]

ok yeah, thanks for that i now understand how it works but i still cant fully understand why he uses it? its somemthing used for moving the character i think? but why would he use that lol?

whats the thought behind that

because x will always be slightly different no? bcs the time.deltatime will constantly be slightly different

[languid spire]

basically to make a framerate indepentant value of x to modify the position by

[languid spire]

no, it will be slightly different because he feeds x back into the calculation

[umbral rock]

and not the time.deltatime? because thats not always the same right?

[umbral rock]

why would he modify the position by the framerate? my brain isnt braining

[languid spire]

as near as damnit, that's just to adjust for frame rate changes to make the progression look smoother

[umbral rock]

ah so its almost no difference so u wont notice it?

[languid spire]

you adjust by framerate becauuse you do not want your movement to be fast on fast computers and slow on slow computers, you want it the same on both

[umbral rock]

aaah ok i know why he does it, so he moves the character the at the same speed always on every pc/phone etc... and the x value is always different based on how fast your computer is? but one thing i still not understand is, u say the value of lerp is always between 0,1 but time.deltatime * dodgespeed is always higher than 1 right? dodgespeed in this case is 10f

or is time.deltatime a really low number?

[languid spire]

no, it is always less than 1

[umbral rock]

huh? is it bcs time.deltatime is a number like 0.000....

or?

[languid spire]

think about deltatime on a pc running at 200FPS it is 1 / 200. On a phone running at 30FPS it is 1 / 30

[umbral rock]

aah and *10 it'll never be higher then 1

and if u have 1 fps (;

[languid spire]

your game is shit and no one will even play it

[umbral rock]

Lmao ok ok

thank u very much for the help, i appreciate it alot, i atleast know what it does and why he uses it

[languid spire]

As bawsi said, this is horrible code so don't take it as 'this is the way it should be done'

[eternal needle]

Also there is a max delta time to specifically stop cases like this from massively affecting your game. I think it's like 0.3f by default

[umbral rock]

okay, got it!

[umbral rock]

oohh ok ok, thanks for letting me know

[languid spire]

one other thing with Lerp, if t IS > 1, it will just return the max value

[umbral rock]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Mathf.Lerp.html

if u look at this link at the code block, is this used to move an object from left to right and back from right to left?

[errant pilot]

Guys how can i move the trident forward in its direction and keep in mind its a child of the circle?

[eternal needle]

yes, the comments indicate this but also you should always . Copy the code and see it in your own project, you can debug values and see it in real time

[languid spire]

yes

[vernal bone]

hello
i need to make a "pause game" system for my game, looking for implementation
I'm trying to make all parts of the game to be dependant on internal "pause" flag, rather than using Time.timeScale.
Is it a good implementation, or is there another way? Because i feel like Time.timeScale may not be the best solution, because it can influence more than just gameplay i.e. menus and such

[supple wasp]

People how can I have this code?

[short hazel]

Follow the instructions from the beginning of the page. Looks like a tutorial from the title.

[eternal needle]

itll be really annoying trying to do this all from one "pause flag". First thing that comes to mind is rigidbodies and coroutines. You would have to include some additional check in a coroutine and have a separate script which stops rigidbodies.
What "menus and such" are being affected? This is extremely vague

At the bare minimum you would have to recreate your own values for timescale, deltaTime, etc, just to have a simple working version. And even then you need to handle rigidbodies somehow

[vernal bone]

like animation of a menu sliding in/out of screen

i understand that it can be bothersome, i just don't know how bad of a practice this is

[eternal needle]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AnimatorUpdateMode.html

Its an option on the animator

[vernal bone]

oh

[upper tide]

Do I have to initialize all variable default values like I would in C++ to avoid UB?

[vernal bone]

so using timeScale for a pause is, like, one of the best solutions?

[upper tide]

ever since I had a time where not typing x = 0 got me a UB in C++ I became terrified

[short hazel]

No. You'll get compiler errors if you try to use an uninitialized variable, and runtime errors if you dereference a null reference

[upper tide]

ayeay

[strong harness]

I have a problem, hit count is zero when the game is paused, time scale is set to zero but when the cursor position is on the gameobject and I resume the game and afterwards pause it again, it would be OK!

 var ray = _cameraCollection.Main.ScreenPointToRay(_inputController.CursorPosition);
            var hitCount = Physics2D.GetRayIntersectionNonAlloc(ray, _results, distance, layerMask);

It is in update routine.

I mean the problem is when the game is paused and I hover on a gameobject. It cannot return it but if I resume and pause, it is OK

[eternal needle]

Value types you dont need to, unless it's a local variable. Reference types will be null

[eternal needle]

One of the easiest, and doesnt require any changes elsewhere yes.

[vernal bone]

good enough for me i guess
big thanks

[upper tide]

as opposed to C++ where you need to initialize absolutely everything, right? If memory serves me correctly

[eternal needle]

It's been too long since I've done c++, I dont remember tbh

[upper tide]

I shall google then

[queen adder]

https://gdl.space/ujazelizem.cs some lifehack if anyone needs :3

put in editor folder, rightclick a script you wrote, and select autograb components, automatically fills any field for you :3 (if it thing is in the gameobject and/or child )

[ivory bobcat]

You mean component fields?

[upper tide]

How come I don't need to do the whole = new List<>... thing? I thought ref types were initialized null

[eternal needle]

Seems like a good way to accidentally fuck up a reference that was to a prefab or scene object

[eternal needle]

The new word is needed, the type is already known

[upper tide]

Ohhh that's what it means

[ivory bobcat]

Yeah, it wouldn't be nice for external dependencies (component references that would be from other objects)

[upper tide]

so if I declare it w/o new'ing I'll get null ref right

[languid spire]

yes, if it is not a serialized varialbe

[queen adder]

you'ld have to manual that then, or ||use find ||

[upper tide]

Why does that make the difference? And does that have anyhtingt o do with [serializeField]

[ivory bobcat]

I never use find ||- unless I'm writing code for others or am in need of mad automation||

[upper tide]

Also was wondering if there was a container in C# supporting both lifo and fifo

[upper tide]

whatabout find via Tag

[eternal needle]

Basically it wont be null if unity serializes it, with public or SerializeField. Itll be initialized still

[languid spire]

it makes a different because for serialized variables Unity does the new for you and fill the data which have been serialized

[queen adder]

all find bad, with bytypes being worst

[ivory bobcat]

With proper referencing, you don't really ever need to use Find unless it's something unexpected

[eternal needle]

If you want to improve it, maybe make some editor script or an attribute which let's you do this for certain fields rather than this reflection stuff

[upper tide]

Gotcha. So i'm assuming things like data containers are default serialized

[languid spire]

no, dont assume, check the docs

[upper tide]

Will do

[dry tendon]

Why is this not working??

using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UIElements;

public class ButtonActions : MonoBehaviour
{
[SerializeField] private UIDocument uiDocument;

void EnterFactory ()
{
    Debug.Log("Entering factory");
    
    VisualTreeAsset newAsset = Load<VisualTreeAsset>("UI/UXML Docs/GameHUD");

    if (newAsset != null)
    {
        uiDocument.visualTreeAsset = newAsset;
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogError("VisualTreeAsset not found at the specified path.");
    }
}

void MoreFactoryInfo ()
{
    Debug.Log("Opening more info screen");
}
    
void FactoryTutorial ()
{
    Debug.Log("Starting tutorial");
}

}

[ivory bobcat]

Define not working

[languid spire]

also !code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks

Use links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/, https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code

Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To format as C#, add cs to the first line:
```cs
// Your code here
```
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.

[eager spindle]

the name Load does not exist in the current context

[dry tendon]

Si just wanna change the source asset in UI document by code to change the UI screen while playing...

[languid spire]

your code will not even compile, fix that first

[magic panther]

For some reason classes expanding upon DefaultElement can't access it's protected variables. ANy idea what the case is?

https://hatebin.com/dossoeybqg <- DefaultElement
https://hatebin.com/hrvzbjdycs <- RoomManager (Expands upon DefaultElement)

[eternal needle]

The declared variable is commented out

[magic panther]

what do you mean

[glossy turtle]

?.

[magic panther]

im stupid

wrong variable

[dry tendon]

Better like this?

void EnterFactory ()
{
Debug.Log("Entering factory");

    VisualTreeAsset newAsset = Resources.Load<VisualTreeAsset>("UI/UXML Docs/GameHUD");

    if (newAsset != null)
    {
        uiDocument.visualTreeAsset = newAsset;
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogError("VisualTreeAsset not found at the specified path.");
    }
}

Sorry for the format... I'm just doing it on my mobile phone

[eternal needle]

Why are you coding on your phone?
Write it on your computer, then see if it compiles

[dry tendon]

No, no hehe, I dont have enough connection to open discord on my pc hehe, I already have opened unity there

[ivory bobcat]

Also provide more information about what you're not understanding @glossy turtle
#854851968446365696

[languid spire]

then I cant help you because the next thing I need is a screenshot

[dry tendon]

I'll try to change my connection... Wait a moment

[languid spire]

ok, then screenshot the location of GameHUD in your project view

[dry tendon]

here I am

[eager spindle]

tell us what you want the Load function to do

oh nvm thats solved

[languid spire]

OK, so that is NOT in a folder under a Resources folder

[dry tendon]

So, I just need to create a 'resources' folder inside my assets and move there the uxml?

[eager spindle]

Resources.Load finds stuff in the Resources folder.

Calling Resources.LoadAll<Objective>("objectives") will go to Resources/objectives, find all objects that are objectives and return an array of it.

[glossy turtle]

ok havent seen the previous code nevermind.

[languid spire]

best best, go read the Resources.Load docs, which you shuold have done already

[eager spindle]

yep so in your Assets folder create this

then dump all your uxml files in there

[glossy turtle]

resources folder should start with R.

[dry tendon]

Thank you all, lemme take a look at docs and try it again 🙂

[dry tendon]

I still getting this log

I'll try to update the path

[languid spire]

show where you moved GameHUD to

[dry tendon]

    void EnterFactory ()
    {
        Debug.Log("Entering factory");
        
        VisualTreeAsset newAsset = Resources.Load<VisualTreeAsset>("Assets/Resources/GameHUD");

        if (newAsset != null)
        {
            uiDocument.visualTreeAsset = newAsset;
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("VisualTreeAsset not found at the specified path.");
        }
    }```

[languid spire]

you really did not read the Resources.Load docs did you

[dry tendon]

oh, my bad! is it like this? ```csharp
void EnterFactory ()
{
Debug.Log("Entering factory");

    VisualTreeAsset newAsset = Resources.Load<VisualTreeAsset>("GameHUD");

    if (newAsset != null)
    {
        uiDocument.visualTreeAsset = newAsset;
    }
    else
    {
        Debug.LogError("VisualTreeAsset not found at the specified path.");
    }
}```

[languid spire]

yes

[dry tendon]

then, how could i load the uxml from a different folder without using Resouces one?

[languid spire]

you cannot other than using an asset bundel or addressable

but you can have multiple Resources folders and they can have sub folders

[dry tendon]

So you definetly recommend me using this method? or would you use as you said me addressable objects/asset bundels?

[languid spire]

that depends on your use case, if the asset is included in the build then Resources.Load is your only option other than a direct reference

[dry tendon]

Thanks! and one last thing... would you recommend me to move the entire UI folder in resources one to keep it organized?

[languid spire]

no, you only want stuff in Resources that you will load with Resources.Load

[dry tendon]

so then the best option would be moving the uxml docs folder into resources one, right?

[languid spire]

Or you make a folder Assets/UI/UIXML DOcs/Resources and move the stuff you want rto load into that

Resources does not have to be directly under Assets

[dry tendon]

Ohhh, that's possible!

That's definetly my answer 🙂

And to load it it would be the same code?

[languid spire]

yes

[dry tendon]

And if I had two resources folder, how would unity know which one I'm refering to?

[languid spire]

Magic, just dont use the same asset name in multiple Resources folders

[teal viper]

It collects all the Resources folders in the project.

[languid spire]

Spoilsport, I prefer Magic

[dry tendon]

Lovely, so, thanks for you help! I'll read more docs before asking it here 🙂

[dry tendon]

Me too :>

[teal viper]

Sadly, magic doesn't exist.

Santa doesn't exist either btw.

[languid spire]

wdym, I do it every day and, btw, you have not seen my beard, long and white

[winter tinsel]

i wouldnt have expected santa to have unity expirience

i guess doing nothing for 364 days makes you acquire hobbies

[bright oxide]

hello, is it possible to bind button scaling to length of the text?

[ripe shard]

You can use a ContentSizeFitter

[bright oxide]

Thanks

[queen adder]

IBeginDragHandler, IDragHandler and IEndDragHandler acts like IPointerDownHandler, IPointerMoveHandler and IPointerUpHandler. Is it normal behaviour? I thought it should get called when there is a drag going on

[silk night]

So begindrag already triggers on first click?

[queen adder]

Oh no. It fires at first drag. After that when i stop drag, it does not fires IEndDragHandler. The IEndDragHandler gets fired when i just do pointer up...

[silk night]

Hmm weird, have never seen one fire and the other doesnt, usually they dont work at all when there is a problem 😄

[sweet sierra]

Ik I asked this earlier but... kinda stuck. How can I access the Text Child of "CoinsAmount" button?

Finding and Accessing the ScoreCount child was easy because there was only one. But out of three buttons, I don't think I can easily reference the text inside the score

[silk night]

Does anything prevent you from referencing it via inspector?

Just make a public field with TMP_Text as type and drag your Text Element into it in the inspector

[delicate portal]

With this piece of code I'm creating three lines in a triangle from the player, but...

Doesn't matter where the player is, it always points into one place

[sweet sierra]

So that's the best way?

I was doing that earlier but for every level, will that be "effective"?

For now I only have 6 levels though

[silk night]

If the Element you want to change is always present and does not change dynamically that is the easiest way yes

You can create a level template that has the important stuff already linked and create copies or even prefab variants of it

[sweet sierra]

Interesting. Thank you! 🙌

[keen needle]

Do they move with the character?

[delicate portal]

No, in fact they are just wrong

Why is Vector3.forward pointing down??

[keen needle]

probably for * 0.4

[silk night]

Is the cube rotated?

[delicate portal]

No, its just a wider radius

[delicate portal]

No.

[keen needle]

What is he supposed to do?

[delicate portal]

Well, if the enemy is in the 'Defend' state, he'll go to one of the 3 line's end.

But this way, its just in 1 place

Added a vector that adds to the other, but its still in 1 place

[keen needle]

If you want it to move to where the line ends you can use SetDestination, but it will go straight

[steep rose]

you are using global postions

use the actual player transform

[delicate portal]

How do I not use that?

[delicate portal]

I do.

[steep rose]

Player.Transform.forward

[delicate portal]

I use that

[steep rose]

not vector3.forward

[delicate portal]

Check this.

[steep rose]

show me Hierarchy of player

what what it has on it

if the player doesnt rotate, the debug will never rotate with it

[delicate portal]

The rotation is good

[steep rose]

also check what player is in your code and check if is actually is a transform

[delicate portal]

It is I checked.

The problem is not with the rotation. It is with the position.

The lines should move with the player indicating its forward position.

[steep rose]

thats its direction

not position

[delicate portal]

But I might have to just add the player's position vector to the end?

[steep rose]

can i see the Hierarchy and not cropped out

[steep rose]

thats the inspector

[delicate portal]

I kind of got it

I made an offset indicating the player's position excluding y, and then adding it to the end position of the line

[stiff abyss]

Why only 1 selected sheep spawn if i select 2

script
https://hatebin.com/gvdzvqyqom

[wintry quarry]

        foreach (GameObject obj in gameManager.SelectedItemsList)
        {
            if (!instantiatedObjects.ContainsKey(obj))
            {
                GameObject instance = Instantiate(obj, SpawnPosition, obj.transform.rotation = RandomRotation);
                instantiatedObjects[obj] = instance;
            }
        }```

They're the same prefab presumably

and your code here is guarding against having more than one object spawned from the same prefab

[stiff abyss]

how i should change it ?

[wintry quarry]

You're also modifying the prefab's rotation here which is a bad idea:

obj.transform.rotation = RandomRotation```

i.e.:

                GameObject instance = Instantiate(obj, SpawnPosition, obj.transform.rotation = RandomRotation);

Should change to:

                GameObject instance = Instantiate(obj, SpawnPosition, RandomRotation);

[wintry quarry]

get rid of that if statement.

if you want to actually track spawned objects per prefab you would need a Dictionary<GameObject, List<GameObject>> and then you could theoretically limit it to some number N of spawned obejcts per prefab if you want (with some additional code)

but right now your code is limiting to one object per prefab

[fair thorn]

guys how do i approach a big project that i want to replicate

[rich adder]

explain

this is very vague

replicate what exactly?
also is it code? cause this is code channel

[fair thorn]

like i want to create a replica of a level from zelda

and i have a example small project in github that my guide sent me

for learning practically

[rich adder]

so whats the problem ?

[fair thorn]

I dont know where to start

its like what part should i focus first

cause like its hard to know where to start like what thing

[rich adder]

it really depends how much you know about unity & code

[fair thorn]

like the scripts

[rich adder]

making a game is no easy task , lots of different systems in play together

[fair thorn]

i know enough but i want to get out of the tutorial bubble

[fair thorn]

yea i am not a newbie

[rich adder]

break down bigger problems into smaller ones easier to solve

[fair thorn]

I know design patterns,codes,etc etc

yea i have tried breaking them down

its just where do i start

[rich adder]

but do you have *practical * experience

[fair thorn]

form game manager or

player

[fair thorn]

yes creating small projects

[rich adder]

it realy makes no difference where you start, as long as you start

get things in motion you will worry less

[fair thorn]

aah okay

i will try to

i was confused in wheather to code the manager first

[rich adder]

thinking too much leads to "paralysis by analysis"

[fair thorn]

or the player

by i know

😅

thats what happeninng to me

[rich adder]

when that happens to me I just start chipping at it , as 🧀 as that is, it works

starting anything at all gives your project "momentum"

from there to me just snowballs , I dont even think about it anymore and just churn out code

[fair thorn]

what you mean chipping

🤣

[rich adder]

well..like a marble sculpture, in the beginning its just a block of marble until you start "chipping" with a chisel / hammer

[fair thorn]

yea i mean thats a good way of thinking

[rocky canyon]

really good example of how things come together sometimes

well, subtractive art anyway.. for additive you could say the first glob of paint on the painting

[ionic zephyr]

Hi, I have a problem with my tools and weapons. All of my tools and weapons are SO´s which have different stats, however one of them is Durability. I want to know how to remove the object from my inventory whenever it breaks. The problem is that when I reduce de Durability counter with each hit, I am reducing the SO stat so I am facing the problem that I might have to create a new class of tool that has a durability float and add that specific class into a different List on the Inventory Manager, is there another way to solve this?

[wintry quarry]

Max durability and current durability should be different variables

And current durability doesn't belong on the SO but on a runtime instance

[ionic zephyr]

but those two variables are supposed to be in the SO? In that case whenever I reduce one, it reduces for ALL the SO´s

[wintry quarry]

No

Only max should be on the so

Current should be elsewhere

[polar acorn]

Why would the database need to know the current durability

[ionic zephyr]

yeah, doesn´t make sense but I don´t know how to solve it other than creating a new class with the current durability variable and that could make me redo lots of stuff

[polar acorn]

You should already have a class representing the actual thing in the scene that reads data from the SO

[ionic zephyr]

so I should have ToolData and Tool Object, ResourceData and ResourceObject for example?

even if they dont belong in the Overworld

[polar acorn]

It doesn't need to be a MonoBehaviour, but there should be a "Not ScriptableObject" class you can pass around and modify that represents that specific thing in the game

[ionic zephyr]

Okay, thanks a lot for this help

[sweet sierra]

Kinda new to coroutines and delays but... I can't see any delay even after this

[rich adder]

yeah cause the coroutine isn't doing anything

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Coroutines.html

[sweet sierra]

I just need a delay in the loop 😂

So to kinda create an animation

[rich adder]

so you put the loop in the coroutine

Starting a Coroutine doesn't NOT delay the current function

[sweet sierra]

Like this?

[rich adder]

it starts an "async"-like function, as it runs "on the side" (technically isn't but its very fast)

[rich adder]

did you read what I sent?

[sweet sierra]

Reading that rn

So... from what I've read sooo far... The coroutine repeats every X number of seconds or frames?

[rich adder]

right now it does the loop. Starts a new coroutine, waits for time and does nothing.

you're not using it correctly

[sweet sierra]

Quick Question... do coroutines run until stopped?

Or just once?

[rich adder]

they only run once unless you put an infinite loop inside

(one that doesn't hang)

[rough hill]

My character is doing some crazy stuff when moving towards the camera. I am using cinemachine but how is the character blocked by the camera?

[sweet sierra]

Ok ok. I'll read more the doc and then implement it. Thank you sooo much!

[rich adder]

more specifically. look where they placed their Yield

also
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.StartCoroutine.html
has further examples

they are a bit more practical

[sweet sierra]

Got it

Oohh yess... I can see the difference

[rich adder]

huh ? cameras cannot block characters, unless you had some type of collider on it

[prisma salmon]

Hey guys! I want to make a top-down 2D world map like you're playing Risk or something that lets you select individual parts of nations on a map, but I can't find any tutorials that teach me how to make something like that. I'm an absolute noob at game coding so any help/tutorials you could send would be really appreciated

World Map Strategy Kit 2 is the closest thing to what I'm looking for, but I don't have 100 dollars to spend and I want to make everything myself if possible.

[rocky canyon]

you can use OnMouse events to detect for clicks and stuff on 2d sprites for example..

just need to create some buttons that look like different pieces of the level

[rich adder]

can also raycast onto a texture to find exact coordinate you're on , match the color to specific regions or something like that

maybe use SVGs for the shapes?

[rocky canyon]

yeap, could do that.

[worthy tundra]

gonna make my first ever FSM, wish me luck

[rough hill]

I believe this part causes the weird character rotation.

[languid spire]

very probably, you can read Euler angles but you cant actually use them for much

[rocky canyon]

good luck

[worthy tundra]

gonna keep it simple:
one FMS "brain" script that can change between states, let other scripts inherit from it, and one state template script which is going to be a scriptable object, other states can inherit from it

[prisma salmon]

Thanks, guys- I also found a good tutorial, too

[sweet sierra]

@rich adder Once again, Thanks! Btw... how's this animation?

[rocky canyon]

you mean the tweening UI elements or the player animation? the playeranimation is glitchy..

[rich adder]

looks good, maybe a tad slow

[rocky canyon]

also #archived-game-design or #1180170818983051344 for opinions

[sweet sierra]

Yeah no shit 😂. The Player Animation, we just rushed that 😭

[rocky canyon]

its just missing a keyframe or so it appears

the loop back to the start is glitching

[rich adder]

yeah player animations needs bit of work, maybe copy the last frames and invert them

[rocky canyon]

but yea, if he talkin about the card stack. it is really slow imo

it should be really close to instant.. (players hate waiting for stuff for no reason)

[rough hill]

If I add this, my A and D Inputs rotate the player too strong. Is there another way to calculate the rotation in relation to the cam without using eulerAngles?

[sweet sierra]

I added the option to make it run faster so that's not an issue
But the main thing is I at least know coroutines a bit now

[rocky canyon]

most button type animations should be between 100-500ms good rule of thumb

almost instant.. but not exactly

[rocky canyon]

theres methods that use only Quaternions..

i tend to use AngleAxis alot for things like cameras

[worthy tundra]

heres my FMS system rn, lemme know if you see any problems with it

state script: https://pastebin.com/ZsxPLSgh
FMS script: https://pastebin.com/nN8tLHQn

[slender nymph]

This isn't really about the code itself, but it is FSM not FMS, Finite State Machine.

[keen dew]

Finite Mate Stachine

[worthy tundra]

LMFAO im keeping it this way for the funny

[eager spindle]

finite at freddy

[mystic dawn]

Hello there! has anyone worked with custom css and html for itch.io pages before? im looking to ask about adding some custom html classes or id to edit specific elements in my pages, has anyone done some of this before?

[rich adder]

this isnt a unity coding question..

[mystic dawn]

oh sorry is there a channel for game page related stuff?

[slender nymph]

closest would be #1157336089242112090
but you're more likely to get a response in a more general game dev server or somewhere specific to web dev/html+css

[mystic dawn]

yeah i guess something like web related servers would be useful! haha there's really not much documentation on itch page customization from what i've searched

[steel hull]

real simple question why do we multiply the sensitivity with time.deltatime when making a mouse looking function

[slender nymph]

you're not supposed to. people teaching you to do that are wrong because mouse input is already frame rate independent

[rich adder]

cause its wrong

[steel hull]

I knew it

thank you all

one more question tho

what are quaternions

I've been trying to find that out for tha past 3 hours

[slender nymph]

it's a 4 axis structure to represent complex rotations. you don't really need to understand them, there are helper functions that let you use euler angles which are the angles you are already familiar with

https://unity.huh.how/quaternions

[steel hull]

thankss

[wintry quarry]

they are a datatype that holds a rotation

just like a Color is a data type that holds a color

Quaternion would have been better named in the API as "Rotation" simply

[slender nymph]

I feel like if they'd done that there would be even more people improperly using their members as euler angles. at least with the data type being called quaternion it's easier to look up what they actually are and see that they are not expressed in euler angles so fewer people abuse them

[wintry quarry]

I feel like it's hard for that to happen more than it doesnow

[worthy tundra]

if it had a simple name it could trick beginners into thinking that its something simple that they can just mess around with

[eager spindle]

you can use github pages if you want to write your own page completely. but people actively scroll through itch to look for fun indie games to play

[worthy tundra]

whereas with quaternion, beginners can look it up and see this image, realize that its something more complex that they should tackle once they have more experience

[eager spindle]

netlify/vercel lets you deploy your unity app quickly as it doesnt have a size limit, you can then embed the netlify/vercel PWA into a github page

that's how im doing it rn

would never pay for netlify/vercel but they're a good free option ig

[mystic dawn]

yeah i'm currently editing an itch page for an asset pack and i'm struggling to find a way of adding classes to specific elements to edit them individually in the custom css and it seems like itch does not accept adding custom html, my knowledge of html and css is very very basic so im having a hard time finding another way to do what i want to haha

[eager spindle]

are you able to embed a custom page into itch?

if so embedding a custom github page could work out

[steel hull]

please don't do this to me

I just installed unity

please

[rocky canyon]

itch uses markdown.. and its own css https://itch.io/docs/creators/css-guide
as with all websites like that that grant you some customization its never completely customizable

[wintry quarry]

That's the thing though. Beginners are really focused on the XYZW part. But Quaternions actually ARE something really simple they can mess around with. Just not by looking at the XYZW components. They are simple to mess around with using:

• The * operator
• The static methods in Quaternion such as Euler, FromToRotation, Inverse, AngleAxis etc. @steel hull

[eager spindle]

youll learn it eventually but dont be too nervous

[wintry quarry]

like this is nonsense because day to day I don't even know or care about this. I just use the API

and it's easy

[eager spindle]

i posted a visualisation of each type of rotations a while back give me a sec

[steel hull]

nah I'm just trying to make the learning a bit more fun with jokes and stuff

[slender nymph]

you really don't need to understand the underlying data, just the helper functions i pointed out that are also listed in that page i linked

[wintry quarry]

People scare beginners away with the "4 dimensional" nonsense and really Quaternions are easy when you just ignore that stuff

and use the API

[worthy tundra]

i mean same idk anything about quaternions i just know like 2 lines that i memorize

[half egret]

Are you telling me I can't embed a malicious JS script in my itch page?! 1984

[rocky canyon]

i think everyone besides math majors.. just use quaternions..

don't need to understand em to use em lol

[mint remnant]

Go look up quaternions and transformations from a 1977 PDF from NASA, there's like 12 different matricies to create a quaternion 😛

[half egret]

Honestly when it comes to quaternions, I just tell people to get a basic understanding of gimbal lock and that's it

There are a lot of handy visualizations out there

[rocky canyon]

that and you combine quaternions by multiplying them.

[steel hull]

what does clamp exactly do like limit?

[wintry quarry]

it returns a value between the clamp min and max

[rocky canyon]

returns a number closets to teh limit it falls in

[steel hull]

oh so if its over the max it returns the max

[wintry quarry]

yes

[steel hull]

right?

nicee thanks

[eager spindle]

float Clamp(float value, float min, float max) {
  if(value < min) return min;
  if(value > max) return max;
  return value
}

minor spelling mistake

[steel hull]

I am learning 😄

[steel hull]

thank youu

[rocky canyon]

https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityCsReference/blob/master/Runtime/Export/Math/Mathf.cs

[steel hull]

Its easy for me to understand most of these because I was originally a roblox developer but I feel like unity is much better

not to reach users but in any other way

[rocky canyon]

lol, unity is a game engine

roblox is a game 😛

[steel hull]

yeah I know thats why I switched

[steel hull]

nah like studio